During the last hearing, the SC also ordered the formation of a larger bench to establish a JIT to probe the incident.

Bisma Amjad, an aggrieved woman of the incident, had filed an application to the chief justice requesting to constitute a new JIT to probe into the killings of innocent workers of the PAT/Idara Minhajul Quran.

The court issued notices to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and 137 others nominated in a case lodged by PAT regarding the 2014 Model Town incident.

On December 5, 2017, the Punjab government had made the report of the Model Town incident public on the order of the Lahore High Court.

Justice Baqir Najfi commission probed the incident and reported in its inquiry that police tried to cover up the facts regarding who gave orders to open fire on protesters.